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Alan's Distance Education Timeline
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Phillipps
First recored correspondence study of shorthand advertised in Boston Gazette -
Pittman Shorthand
Training program in shorthand, students mailed their exercises to the Photographic Institute in Cincinnati -
Ticknor Society
Ticknor Society ot Encourage Studies at Home
Provided correspondence courses for 10,000 members over 24-year period -
Harper Correspondence Program
Led to State of New York authorization of correspondence courses -
Correspondence U.
Established in Ithaca, New York -
Mine Safety Course
Colliery School of Mines in PA, evolved in International Correspondence Schools that trained mine and railroad workers -
University of Chicago
First academic recognition -
Radio broadcasting invented
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Educational Radio Licenses
University of Salt Lake City, University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota! -
Television course
University of Iowa first broadcast courses by TV -
FCC created ITFS
Instructional Television Fixed Service, a band of 20 TV channels for educational institutions -
AIM Project
Articulated Instructional Media Project, first attempt to categorize distance learning practices. University of Wisconsin -
British Open University
Used AIM as a model for distance learning in Britain, presently supplies 21% of distance learning in England -
Public Broadcasting Act
Establish by Congress, created PBS -
Coastline CC
Coastline Community College, first college without campus, fully televised courses -
Computers
Intel created microprocessor, start of computers -
Germany
Fern University, presently has 59,000 students, offers 1,700 courses. Also has institute to study distance education -
Satellites
Satellites first used to transmit programs. National Technological University had 40 institutional members -
University of Phoenix
Launched fully on-line curriculum -
World Wide Web
Start of the information superhighway -
First Accreditation
Jones International University was first fully online university to be accredited by the Higher Learning Commission -
Khan Acadamy
Microtutorials started, presently there are almost 3,000 available free -
MOOC
First MOOC in 2008 started by Utah State and University of Regina -
Stanford MOOC
Most notable MOOC started at Stanford, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" -
Udacity and Coursera
Two large MOOC companies started -
edX started
MOOC of Harvard and MIT
